Richard Rudgley

Pagan Resurrection: A Force for Evil or the Future of Western Spirituality? / Η αναβίωση του παγανισμού

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Pagan Resurrection puts forward a fascinating and controversial idea – namely that it is the pagan god Odin and not Christ who is the single most important spiritual influence in western civilisation. Far from being just a New Age fad, paganism is fast becoming a major spiritual, intellectual, ecological and political force across the globe. Rudgley is an Oxford trained anthropologist and critically acclaimed author of Lost Civilisations of the Stone Age, who has since presented three series on Channel 4. He takes the reader through the strange world of modern pagan cults, the beliefs that underpin important parts of modern culture, such as Lord of the Rings and the highly pagan counter culture that sprang up in the sixties and now offers an attractive alternative spiritual vision to millions alienated from Christianity. He explains the ancient idea of the Web – a cosmic field of energies that encompasses time, space and the hidden potentials of the human organism, and shows that this is a pagan equivalent to the eastern tradition of the Tao. Our civilisation, our belief systems and attitudes, indeed our psyche have been formed by Odin. The influence of Christ, he says, has been relatively recent and shallow. Paganism, like Christianity, can be a force for good or evil. At this turning point in history we need to choose between the dark and destructive paganism that gave rise to Nazism and modern right-wing movements in America and, on the other hand, the green paganism of ecology and alternative spirituality. Every decade or so a new generation is inspired by a controversial classic of alternative history/spirituality – The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, Fingerprints of the Gods. ..The time now is just right for Pagan Resurrection. Η Αναβίωση του παγανισμού είναι η βιογραφία ενός θεού. Ο Οντίν, η αρχαία παγανιστική θεότητα της Δύσης, που εκθρονίστηκε από τον Χριστό, αναστήθηκε για να παίξει σημαντικό ρόλο στις ζωές των ανθρώπων της σύγχρονης εποχής. Ο συγγραφέας ερευνά αυτήν την αναβίωση του παγανισμού στους ποικίλλους τρόπους με τους οποίους εμφανίζεται, από τη βικτοριανή μυθιστοριογραφία ως τους πρώτους χίπις της Γερμανίας του εικοστού αιώνος, και από τους Ναζί έως τις ιδέες του ψυχολόγου Καρλ Γιούνγκ. Η νέα μορφή παγανισμού αποτελεί μια αυξανόμενη δύναμη στον σύγχρονο πολιτισμό, όχι μόνο στην Ευρώπη και στην Αμερική αλλά και σε ολόκληρο τον κόσμο. Παρέχει μια ζωντανή φιλοσοφία για τον εικοστό πρώτο αιώνα, αναφέρεται στη σύγχρονη κρίση της πνευματικότητας της Δύσης και δείχνει τον δρόμο προς τα εμπρός.

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